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Formula One Legends: World Championship 1972

Twelve races composed the 23rd Formula One championship, which started on January 23rd and ended on October the 8th.

One track, originally scheduled to host a race, Zandvoort was abandoned since didn’t respect the current safety rules.

This year will be remembered for the a colour which became legend.

In fact Imperial Tobacco, sponsor of Lotus, changed name and adopted a new brand, John Players Special or JPS as often referred to. This would sound insignificant if it wasn’t that Lotus was going to have the colours which assigned its name to legend. The well known black and gold livery.

And Lotus was also the team which improved more over the winter and that dominated the championship. Emerson Fittipaldi became the youngest world champion at that point, in front of Stewart and Denny Hulme.